I applied in-person. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Michaels (East Pittsburgh, PA) in Apr 2017
Interview
Very easy and simple for a position like this. Dress well, and show your enthusiasm with arts and crafts. They asked about my availability and if I liked art, and that was basically it. My first day was scheduled after that. I had way over-prepared.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you enjoy arts and crafts? What kind of art do you make?
Easy and hard but then I did the thing and i learned that every time, The interviewer asked me general behavioral questions, didn't seem too hard but wasn't too easy. interesting energy.
I applied online. I interviewed at Michaels (Charlottesville, VA)
Interview
Interviewed right after my friend from school. She didn’t know we knew each other and was floored to have back-to-back interviews of candidates from NJ. Easy, simple questions about customer service.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Michaels (Yuba City, CA) in Feb 2024
Interview
They asked about 3-5 basic behavioral questions, it wasn't too bad jus try to be concise with your answers and try you best to be humble. If you're gonna fluff make sure it makes sense.
Retail Sales Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Michaels with 1.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Retail Sales Associate roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 15 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Michaels overall takes an average of 12 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Michaels as a Retail Sales Associate according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
Drug test: 28%
One on one interview: 25%
Background check: 11%
Phone interview: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Skills test: 6%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 3%
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